Use of Mobile Telemedicine for Cervical Cancer Screening in Gaborone, Botswana
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1 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 2 Click Diagnostics, Boston, MA 3 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 5 Botswana-UPenn Partnership, Women’s Health Initiative, Gaborone, Botswana 6 Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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Use of mobile telemedicine for cervical cancer screening.
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